As part of its plan to expand into private markets and insource more of its investment decisions, the New Hampshire Retirement System has appointed Danita Johnson as head of private markets. An NHRS ...

Dorsal Capital Management, run by former SAC Capital technology guru Ryan Frick, is the rare TMT firm that lets its investors sleep soundly at night no matter market conditions.At least when it comes ...

Replacing the founders of New York-based real estate manager Cohen & Steers was never going to be an easy task. When Martin Cohen and Robert Steers established the firm in 1986, they did so with the ...

Who said succession planning can’t work in the hedge fund industry? Just ask the folks at Renaissance Technologies, which has not missed a beat since its founder, Jim Simons, passed away last year.The ...

When Harlan Korenvaes founded HBK Capital Management in 1991, the multistrategy hedge fund firm was among the few, and the best, in the field. Within a decade, however, HBK lost its prominence as the ...

It’s one of the oldest patterns in investing: a strategy stumbles, investors question whether it’s broken, they flee, and then it comes back to life. That’s what’s happening now with managed futures, ...

The big stakes legal action may be taking place in a court in lower Manhattan, where Raj Rajaratnam is on trial for trading with insider information. But, 800 miles away in an Illinois court, a former ...

Every summer, Dave Iben takes his team at Kopernik Global Investors away from the sultry air of St. Petersburg, Florida. They’ve decamped to Belgrade, Budapest, Marrakesh, Tokyo, Lisbon, London, ...

After graduating in 1994 from the United States Naval Academy, one of the top colleges in the country, Matt Gibson returned the favor like most midshipmen by serving in the Navy for five years. He ...

Woodline Partners was founded by three former Citadel portfolio managers and traders in 2018, and the equity-driven hedge fund has racked up annual gains between 10.2 percent and 14.4 percent in its ...

Daniel Michalow was a golden child at D.E. Shaw, the now-$70 billion hedge fund he joined in 2004 at the age of 21, straight out of Harvard. By the end of 2011, he had become the firm’s youngest ...

U.S. life insurers may need to hold as much as $4.5 billion more regulatory capital each year for their growing private credit portfolios, according to a new study by Columbia Business School ...